Dr. Ochi Akwiwu-Ibe

Dr. Ochi Akwiwu-Ibe has more than 30 years of clinical and public health program experience and 19+ years of increasing responsibility in developing and managing programs to improve service delivery and strengthen health and social systems in Africa in the public and private sector, and for the United States Agency for International development (USAID). Her technical expertise spans Global Health Security, Community Health Systems, including health workforce planning and community-based surveillance; HIV/AIDS Care and Support including Orphans and Vulnerable Children; Nutrition; Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. She has held technical advisory positions in USAID-funded project and has worked with USAID in Liberia, Namibia, and Nigeria.Dr. Akwiwu-Ibe is a member of the American Public Health Association, International AIDS Society and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. She is also a member of the International Network of Kangaroo Care and Core Group. Dr. Ochi is a frequent presenter on Community health systems strengthening and is a published writer on child survival and Kangaroo Mother Care. Ochi is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians and an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College; has two master’s degrees in Maternal and Child Health and Public Health from University College London and University of Lagos respectively and a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nigeria.